Protesters march as they call for a thorough investigation of the shooting death of teen Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, on a street in front of the White House in Washington, August 28, 2014. (Reuters/Larry Downing)

A crowd of protesters has taken to the streets of Washington, DC, expressing their solidarity with the people of Ferguson who gathered earlier on Saturday in remembrance of Michael Brown, the unarmed black teenager killed by police earlier this month.

Chanting “Hands up!
Don’t shoot!” the Washington protesters took over the
streets in a northeast neighbourhood, blocking the traffic.
Wondering “How many must die?” till police brutality and
racism is stopped, protesters demanded “Justice for Mike
Brown!”

Earlier in the day, hundreds of people gathered in Ferguson,
Missouri calling for justice over the killing of Brown.
Protesters said that this is just the beginning of a movement to
highlight US racial inequality.

The rally started where the unarmed 18-year old was shot dead on
August 9th by white police officer Darren Wilson in the small
Missouri town, AP reports. There were children and families among
the protesters who wore T shirts and carried banners with the
ubiquitous sign “hands up, don’t shoot.”

The march was led by Brown’s mother, Lesley McSpadden. She and
other members of the Brown family, including Michael’s father
Michael Brown senior, gathered round the make shift memorial in
the middle of Cranfield Drive where Brown died and bowed their
heads in prayer. One was led by a Muslim cleric, the other by
Rev. Spencer Booker.

“We know that his life is not going to be in vain. We know
you’re going to even the score God. We know you’re going to make
the wrong right,” said Booker through a megaphone.

Jerryl Christmas the St Louis attorney said the march was meant
to keep the resulting racial questions that were the result of
Brown’s death “in the forefront of America.”

“We're just three weeks into this, and this is only the
beginning of this movement. We want the president to come here.
He remarked that he didn't have a strategy for ISIS and Syria,
but we need a strategy for urban America. The tragedy is this
could have happened anywhere,” Christmas told AP.

For days after Brown’s death the area of Ferguson was the
epicenter of nightly protests, although during Saturday’s protest
there was a muted police presence with the Highway Patrol Captain
Ron Johnson, who was in charge of security, posing for selfies
with rally attendees.